Review the VSAM Connector rules and guidelines before you begin configuring connections, mappings, and mapping tasks.
•You can use VSAM connections for sources and targets.
•VSAM Connector connects to the PowerExchange Listener by using the Listener Location property that you specify in the VSAM connection definition. On the Connector system, you do not need to create a local copy of the DBMOVER configuration file that contains a NODE statement pointing to the PowerExchange Listener.
•If you upgrade your system to a later PowerExchange version, you must stop the Secure Agent that connects to the older PowerExchange Listener before you try to connect to the upgraded PowerExchange Listener. After you edit the connection properties to specify the upgraded PowerExchange Listener, restart the Secure Agent before you try to establish the connection again. For more information, see Upgrading to a new version of PowerExchange.
•The PowerExchange Listener on the LUW system can compress or encrypt the data that it sends to the PWX Bulk Reader component of VSAM Connector depending on how you set the Compression and Encryption properties for the source connection.
•VSAM Connector uses group source processing to read bulk data from ESDS, KSDS, or RRDS data sets with multiple record types. Group source processing reads data that is stored in the same physical source in a single pass. By eliminating multiple passes of the source data, group source processing enhances bulk data movement performance and reduces resource consumption on the source system.